ROG Striker GTX 760 Platinum 4GB Has Hand-Picked GPU
Asus has announced its GTX Striker 760 Platinum graphics card, which is probably one of the most high-end GTX 760 implementations on the market. The card, as indicated, is based on the GTX 760 design, but beyond the GPU, there isn't much that it has in common with the reference design. It has an alternate PCB design, a different cooler, along with different clock speeds, as well as double the graphics memory.
The clock speeds of the unit are set at 1085 MHz base with a boost frequency of 1150 MHz. The 4 GB of GDDR5 memory runs at an effective speed of 6.0 GHz over a memory interface that's 256-bits wide. The GPUs on the platinum cards have been hand-picked for stability and overclockability.
There is also a standard (non-Platinum) version of the card that features lower GPU clocks. This card has a base frequency of 980 MHz with a boost frequency of 1033 MHz. These are reference frequencies.
Display outputs are taken care of by two DVI ports, a single HDMI port, along with a DisplayPort 1.2 connector. Powering the graphics card itself is a combination of a six–pin and eight-pin set of PCIe power connectors.
No exact word on pricing yet, though we can expect it to cost about $300. It should be coming to shelves this month still.
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Yeah that is starved for memory. Or you could get an R9 280X for the same price as the 760 4GB, and that would destroy it and tie the 770 while actually having an adequate amount of VRAM for an enthusiast card.
Yeah that is starved for memory. Or you could get an R9 280X for the same price as the 760 4GB, and that would destroy it and tie the 770 while actually having an adequate amount of VRAM for an enthusiast card.
More than 2GB memory makes absolutely no difference for most people in most scenarios. I'm running 1080p and my 2gb 770 does what I need.
It's a complete waste of money to pay more for the 4gb 770, and even a bigger waste of money to buy the 280x that's was selling for 100$ over the MSRP at the time I purchased the 770, for a card in the same performance bracket.
If this were a 780 chip or better, I could understand more, but a 760, that's for the value market folks.
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First off, this is wrong. Second, you never mentioned what res your running at. 1440p is not normal, most people run at 1080p and its more then enough for that.
So many people get hung up on RAM. AMD has more RAM that NVidia in general, it doesn't make the cards any faster (unless you are Bitcoin mining).
2GB 770 is faster than 4 GB 760. 3GB 780 is faster than a 4GB 770. See a pattern here?
More importantly, a 2GB 770 is equal to a 4GB 770 in 99% of scenarios (in some cases, the 2GB is actually slightly faster).
And then there is the "future proof" argument. I personally do not think "future proof" and "graphics card" should be used in the same sentence. Well let me pay an extra 50$ for a 770 with 2GB extra RAM, so I can sli later... No thanks, I'll save my 50$, and apply it towards my next generation single-GPU solution. The GTX 770 is plenty fast right now at 1080p. In a few years when it starts being slow at medium settings for modern games, I will get a new 970 or equivalent.
For those who must have the latest and greatest, or use higher res or multiple monitors, buying a lower end card like the 760 with extra RAM isn't the solution. 780ti, or soon the 790, would be the route to take... And sure, the 4GB 770 might give a few extra FPS on multiple monitors on certain games in a perfect world, but the frame rate is still unplayable on 3 monitors, so it's really not worth talking about.